Biden supports a two-state solution for a post-Hamas Gaza in a Washington Post op-ed.
President Joe Biden on Saturday reiterated his opposition to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as well as his vision of a two-state solution in which Israel would co-exist with a “revitalized Palestinian Authority” governing both the West Bank and Gaza.
In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, the president argued that a halt to the fighting between Israel and the Hamas terror group would not bring lasting peace, but would instead allow Hamas to regain strength and “perpetuate its hate.”
“As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not peace,” the president wrote in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post.
For members of Hamas, President Biden wrote, a ceasefire only gives them the opportunity “to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters and restart the killing by attacking innocents again.”
For Palestinian civilians in Gaza, Hamas remaining in control of the enclave will deny them “the chance to build something better for themselves,” he added.
“If Hamas cared at all for Palestinian lives, it would release all the hostages, give up…
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